St. Louis alderman Charles Quincy Troupe last made it onto these pages in May when he publicly came out against the use of red-light cameras by the City of St. Louis, going as far as introducing a bill to get the camera ordinance repealed.Now the Ward 1 alderman has again made headlines with comments that the recession and joblessness in the city is making thievery more common and burglars bolder.According to the Associated Press:"The community has to be ready to defend itself, because it's clea
Add Dan Isom to the rolls of public-officials-who-blog.
The new chief of the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department launched his blog on October 6, the day, as he puts it, that he landed his dream job.
He's posted sporadically since then: doling out congratulations to promoted officers and extending condolences to the family of a murdered University City police officer. And this week, Isom put up the weightiest piece so far. It's a response to Alderman Quincy Troupe's call to arms. The title
The Post-Dispatch is reporting today that a group in Arnold is asking the City Council to rid the town of red-light cameras.
In 2005 Arnold became the first city in Missouri to install red-light cameras. Since then Jefferson County municipality has issued more than 19,000 tickets from the cameras, generating $484,000 in revenue for the city.
Arnold Police Chief Robert Shockey has responded to the group by preparing a report he says proves that the cameras&nb
Employing the same sort of logic that St. Louis alderman Quincy Troupe used when he suggested earlier this year that every north St. Louisan should pack a pistol in order protect themselves from crime, the Missouri House of Representatives gave final passage yesterday to an amendment that would allow college students to carry concealed weapons on campus and in classrooms.Ironically, the Columbia Missourian reports, the vote took place on a dubious anniversary:Wikimedia CommonsExactly two years a
www.flickr.com/photos/echoman/3633870669/Colt .45 may have the single greatest slogan in the history of marketing. Like other stellar ad campaigns ("Got Milk?" "Just Do It" etc.) the malt liquor's catchphrase "Works Every Time," can be applied to virtually any product. That toothpaste you're using? Works every time. Condoms? They work every time. (Ok, 98 percent of the time according to the box, but you get the drift.)But what really sets Colt .45's slogan apart is the fact that that they're pe
To the casual observer, the quiet, tree-lined streets of Webster Groves probably do not suggest a jazz hotbed. Yet over the years the St. Louis suburb has become home to the independent label MAXJAZZ; a respected jazz studies program at Webster University; and two music stores - Euclid Records and Webster Records - with extensive jazz selections and far-flung clienteles.
Now Webster also has a real live jazz club once again with the opening of Robbie's House of Jazz in the corner storefront at
